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<p><a href="http://www.hermann-uwe.de/node/719"><img src="http://www.hermann-uwe.de/files/images/kitty.preview.jpg" width="200" height="143" align="right" hspace="5" alt="kitty screenshot" /></a></p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/kitty-a-podcast-video-podcast-vlog-client-for-kde">mentioned earlier</a>, I wanted to package the KDE videoblog client <a href="http://www.kesiev.com/kittyguide/home/">kitty</a> for Debian. I finally found the time to really do it, and the package has entered Debian unstable a few days ago. The <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348498">first bug</a> has already been reported (sigh), but I'm working on it.</p>
<p>kitty got even mentioned in <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/03/">Debian Weekly News</a> (w00t!)</p>
http://hermann-uwe.de/blog/kitty-a-qt-kde-based-rss-podcast-and-video-aggregator-is-now-in-unstable#commentsclientfeedskdekittymediamoviepodcastqttvvideovlogvloggingvodcastThu, 19 Jan 2006 17:45:24 +0100Uwe Hermann720 at http://hermann-uwe.deLinux Videoblog Clients Roundup [Update]http://hermann-uwe.de/blog/linux-videoblog-clients-roundup
<p><a href="http://www.hboeck.de">Hanno Böck</a> asks <a href="http://www.hboeck.de/item/228">which free clients are available</a> for receiving and subscribing to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting">video podcasts</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoblog">videoblogs</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlog">vlogs</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodcast">vodcasts</a> or whatever you want to call them.</p>
<p>I was asking myself the same question for a number of reasons lately, and here's what I have found:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://vodcatcher.rubyforge.org/">Armangil's vodcatcher</a> is a video podcast client for the command line. Written in <a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/">Ruby</a>, cross-platform, GPL'd, no GUI (obviously).</li>
<li><a href="http://penguintv.sourceforge.net/">PenguinTV</a>, an RSS feed reader which supports podcasts and video blogs. Written in <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>, cross-platform, GPL'd, GTK+ GUI.</li>
<li><a href="http://kmplayer.kde.org/screenshots.php">kmplayer</a>, proposed by <a href="http://www.hboeck.de/item/228">Hanno Böck</a>. Haven't tested it, yet.</li>
<li><a href="http://participatoryculture.org/">DTV</a> (DemoTV), a "free and open-source platform for internet television and video. An intuitive interface lets users subscribe to channels, watch video, and build a video library". This looks like the most mature client right now (<a href="http://www.dtvmac.com/">for Mac</a> at least), and it has been <a href="http://participatoryculture.org/blog/2005/11/dtv-for-linux-halfway-home/">ported to Linux</a> just yesterday. It's written in <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>, cross-platform, GPL'd, GTK+ GUI. I have <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338808">filed an ITP</a> and hope to have a Debian package ready in a few days. The DTV Linux code itself is pretty beta, any helping hands with porting would be nice (contact <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8949926&amp;forum_id=44772">Nick Nassar</a> and/or the <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/demotv-devel">devel mailinglist</a>).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.kesiev.com/kittyguide/home/">Kitty</a>, a podcast and videocast client for KDE. Written in C++, GPL'd, Qt/KDE GUI.</li>
</ul>
<p>As for the content, there's lots of videoblogs out there, and I will blog about that in more detail later on. As an appetizer, you can now subscribe to the new (German) <a href="http://tagesschau.de/podcast">Tagesschau Video Podcast</a> (thanks <a href="http://weblogs.digital.udk-berlin.de/tim/archives/003076.html">Tim Pritlove</a>).</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000">Update 2005-11-14:</strong> Added Kitty.</p>
http://hermann-uwe.de/blog/linux-videoblog-clients-roundup#commentsclientdtvkmplayerlinuxmacpenguintvpodcastvideovideoblogvlogvloggingvodcastSun, 13 Nov 2005 04:31:10 +0100Uwe Hermann546 at http://hermann-uwe.de